At this important stage the current team would like to thank all the past and current people who were involved in getting us here.* Thanks also go to the FPC team for providing the compiler that makes it all possible.* Special thanks go to the founders of the project who started Lazarus more than a decade ago in 1999: Cliff Baeseman, Shane Miller and Michael A. Hess.* A history of developers involved can be found at http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/History. And a list of the many contributors comes with the distribution.

Definitely some beer flowing here to celebrate. This is a significant day, finally a 1.0 moment, and there is a genuine feel-good factor in being involved with such an inclusive and multi-cultural group as the 'Lazarus community'. Congratulations to the hard-working team!